Transcript A Symphony of Whales by: Steve Schuch Genre: Fiction Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues Comprehension Skill: Generalize Comprehension Strategy: Answer Questions.

A Symphony of Whales
by: Steve Schuch
Genre: Fiction
Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues
Comprehension Skill: Generalize
Comprehension Strategy: Answer Questions
Review Concept Board
• Question of the day!
• What reasons would you have to learn
another animal's language?
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Phonics Objectives:
 Use word parts to decode
words with suffixes.
 Review g, j, dge/j/; s, c/s/;
c, k, ck, ch/k/; contrast
hard g with soft g.
 Blend and read g, j, dge/j/;
s, c/s/; c, k, ck, ch/k/
words and suffixes.
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 Apply decoding strategies:
blend longer words.
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Connect
• judge
sauce
Chris
juice
cage
badge
jab
lake
lock
fork
citation
germs
We studied the sounds /j/ (g, j, dge), /s/ (c, s), and /k/
(c, k, ck, ch).
Circle all the words with /j/, draw a box around all the
words with /k/, and underline all the words with /s/.
Note that some words have more than one of these
sounds.
In pairs, have students discuss why each letter sounds the way
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it does and why some letters stand for more than one sound.
Practice & Assess
• suggest
trudge
genius
tackle
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Geneva
synchronize
chronological
jury
icicle
cellular
century
machine
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Read words in context
• Jake donated generously to the school
food drive.
• A chronic illness can often be treated but
not cured.
• Abby helped Mom trim the hedge.
• The principal only had to tell the class to
be quiet once.
• Kate found herself in a real pickle.
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Small Group Time
• Read He Listens to Whales
pages 376-379
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FLUENCY - Partner Reading
• Partners practice reading aloud the first
two paragraphs on p. 366. Students
should read with accuracy at an
appropriate reading pace.
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Sound
• Underwater microphones, or hydrophones,
are special microphones for underwater
use. Hydrophones come in a variety of
shapes, sizes, and materials, and are
used for anything from underwater gas
and oil exploration to listening to whales
and dolphins.
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Language Objectives:
• Become familiar with verb tense
agreement assessment on high-stakes
tests.
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Daily Fix-it
• Yesterday the whales will appear on the
beech.
Yesterday the whales appeared on the beach.
• Some will returned to the water safly.
Some will return to the water safely.
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Standardized Test Tip
• You may be asked to identify the tense of a
verb in a sentence. Remember that a
verb that has no ending or ends with -s and
has no helping verb is a present tense
verb. A verb with -ed is a past tense verb. A
verb with the helping verb will is a future
tense verb.
• Present: Whales swim near the boat.
Past: They bumped into the side.
Future: They will stay away next time.
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Present, past, and future verbs.
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Writing objectives:
• Revise a news story that answers the
questions who, what, where, when, why,
and how.
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Checklist
 Does the news story tell about an
event in time order with no
wordiness?
 Does the story answer the 5 Ws and
how?
 Are present, past, and future tenses
used correctly?
 Are words with the suffixes -ly, -ful, ness, and -less spelled correctly?
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Revising Tips
 Support your news story by writing
sentences that tell the facts without
being wordy.
 Use a combination of short, simple
sentences and longer compound
sentences.
 Begin some sentences with timeorder words for variety.
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Spelling Objective:
• Spell words with suffixes -ly, -ful, -ness,
-less.
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Spelling Strategy
Word Endings
• Make spelling words with suffixes easier for
students by showing that the base word only
changes its spelling when it ends in the letter
y.
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Let’s do this part together.
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GREAT JOB!